Coin card and method of making same



March 23, 1937. T. F. ROEMELE COIN CARD AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed March 51, 1952 Twzooom; F. Doma.;

Patented Mar. 23, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COIN CARD AND METHOD F MAKING SAME 4 Claims.

This invention relates to a packet or card for carrying coins or tokens to avoid inadvertent displacement of the coins and a method of rapidly and inexpensively loading the coins into a suitable material such as a paper product to form a composite card of selected dimensions, flat for convenient grouping units or multiples of said units and occupation in pocket books or pockets; while admitting subsequently the convenient facile withdrawal of one coin without disturbing the remainder, even by a gloved hand.

An object is to group the coins or tokens, such as are in use by transportation companies, into cards not only to enable the vendor to expeditiously serve the vendee, but to provide an inexpensive convenient method for the care of the tokens by both parties.

This method of distributing coin or token laden k cards has the further advantage of making more 49 diicult short changing the vendee.

To facilitate an understanding of the invention reference is made to the accompanying drawing, which is incorporated into this specification, in which, Figure 1 is an elevation of the coin laden card. Fig. 2 is a cross section of Fig. 1, along the line 2, 2. Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 1, along line 3, 3. Fig. 4 diagrammatically represents a plan view of a method for producing the coin laden cards from a strip of paper or other suitable material of indeterminate length; while Fig. 5 is an elevation of Fig. 4.

In the drawing I0 indicates coins or tokens secured in a packet or card II with a portion of each coin extending beyond the margin of the card which is a composite structure composed of laminae or webs I2, I3 of suitable material such as substantial paper or flexible cardboard secured together preferably by a binder such as 40 glue or other mucilagenous material, however stitching or other means can be employed. Considering the line A-B as the center of the coins, it will be noted that more than half of each but not all of each coin is encased by the card, the

4 projectiong portion being determined for ready handling. While it is preferable to employ only two strips of material both of-which incase the coins, using glue only on the lands between the coins, several layers could be substituted, or only one strip coated with tacky material for holding the coin can be employed to produce a coin laden card.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I5 and I 6 indicate strips of laminae of indeterminate length, simultaneously advanced from rolls I1 and I8 which are to be coated with an adhesive and loaded with coins at both edges, when pressure is to be applied to the surfaces to form a composite structure, which is to be subsequently split in two strips as on line I9, and then cross cut into suitable lengths to produce acoin laden card as indicated in Fig. 1. While these steps for handling the material to produce the coin laden cards can be manually performed, this method was evolved to admit of mechanicalizing the procedure.

Many modications, alterations, additions or subtractions to this invention as disclosed, or changes in the modus operandi for producing same can be indulged in without departing from the spirit of my invention, consequently, I Wish to be limited only by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. The'method of producing a composite card composed of two similar webs having substantially parallel edges, with coins disposed between said webs with a portion of same extending beyond one of said edges, said card being made from webs of indeterminate length, which consists of simultaneously advancing said webs of indeterminate length, placing coins between same and subsequently uniting said webs to secure said coins and thereby complete said composite card.

2. The method of producing a composite card composed of two similar webs having substantially parallel edges, with coins disposed between said webs with a portion of same extending beyond said edges, said card being made from webs of indeterminate length, which consists of simultaneously advancing said webs of indeterminate length, placing coins between same and subsequently uniting said webs to secure said coins and thereby complete said composite card.

3. The method of producing a composite card composed of two similar webs having substantially parallel edges, with coins disposed between said webs with a portion of same extending beyond said edges, said card being made from indeterminate lengths of webs, which consists of simultaneously advancing the latter, placing coins between same, and subsequently uniting said webs to secure said coins and then separating portions in which the coins have been secured and thereby completing said composite card.

4. An article of manufacture composed of two similar webs having straight continuous parallel edges in substantial register to constitute a margin, with coins disposed between said webs with a portion of each coin extending beyond said margin.

THEODORE F. ROEMELE. 

